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The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
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Sham city
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The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss actually, it's the human resources loss.
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The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.
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